Sunday, 26 February 2017

LS Lowry often visited Berwick and painted here sometimes. There is a Lowry trail around some of the sites he painted from. At the lighthouse (see above) there is this panel describing one of his empty sea views from 1942

...and here's the view today showing many similarities with the gentle waves and blue-grey skies.

Friday, 17 February 2017

The pre-dawn light was beautiful and we wandered up to the Long Nanny bridge.

Back down the beach, still before the sunrise.

Curlews - one of my favourite birds. Soon they'll leave the coast for their inland moors to breed. I first heard curlews when I was 3 years old in Leverburgh on Harris and their call is the soundtrack of so many memories from throughout my life.

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Wednesday, 15 February 2017

The sunrise is back and it's about 20 minutes earlier than the last time I saw it.

15th Feb 2017, Football Hole, 10am

A lovely run through spring-like sunshine. This time of year the summer birds start to sing but the winter birds are still hanging around. As I ran north the fields on my left were ringing with skylarks and on the beach to my right a curlew's liquid call wafted over the breeze.

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Friday, 3 February 2017

It was something of a dull walk up to the castle with the sun rising behind a bank of cloud. We climbed up to the castle fence for a fine view north over Embleton Bay, Newton and up to Beadnell.

As we walked back the sun rose out of the cloud and we were in the right place at the right time for my favourite alignment of sunrise and castle.

This happens twice a year and I took a very similar shot in 2008 which I called "New Light Through Old Windows" It's still one of my all time favourite photographs and is my Northumberland Photo Training logo.

Although the alignment happens regularly, I've not seen this colour of sky since that shot in 2008.

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